June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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may be somewhat outdated. Second, the TIGER Map Server is sometimes
inexplicably slow or doesn’t respond at all. Third, the service comes with no
warranty at all. To quote from their instructions page:
The Census Bureau has continued to maintain the TIGER Mapping Service
because it has proved useful to the general public. It was never intended to
be a robust all-purpose mapping system to meet the needs of high-volume
government, business or other organizations’ applications... Any application
that uses our mapping service does so at the user’s risk. The Census Bureau
plans continue to try to maintain the TIGER Mapping Service for at least the
near future at its current level, but we accept no obligation to provide special
support (or timely repair) of the system so that it can meet some other govern-
mental, commercial or organizational mission.
On the other hand, as we’ve seen, these maps are pretty hackable—and
they’re free!
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And thereby give new meaning to the term “ICBM coordinates.”
I like pretty pictures that move. Sadly, most maps are stable and don’t move.
Biologists have a special word for systems that are stable and no longer
move, and that word is “dead.” Let’s get the defibrillation paddles out and
put some life into our maps. “Put a Map on It: Mapping
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